Over the past few years, the country has heard the harrowing story of my brother Kalief Browder, a 16 year-old who was jailed at Rikers Island for three years for allegedly stealing a backpack.

His case never went to trial, and the charges against him were eventually dropped. “Kalief Browder is a modern-day prophet, his story a failure of the judicial process,” Jay Z said of the ...

“When Kalief hung himself, my mom found him,” Nicole Browder said. “She could never recover from it… I tried to get her help as much as possible. I did. I tried so hard.” From the grave ...

Browder spent 3 years at Rikers Island without a trial. — -- Many are in mourning and calling for faster prison reform in the U.S. following the recent death of Kalief Browder, who took his ...

Twenty-two-year-old Kalief Browder spent three years in Riker’s Island, which has been ranked as one of the most violent prisons in the country. Reports show that of the 7,500 people detained at ...

I took some time this weekend to re-read Jennifer Gonnerman’s piece on the odyssey of Kalief Browder. I wanted to understand how, precisely, it happened that a boy was snatched off the streets ...

Browder — whose son Kalief killed himself after a harrowing Rikers Island jailing — died of complications from a heart attack at St. Barnabas Hospital, in the Bronx, on Friday, her lawyer told ...

New York City has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Kalief Browder, the young Bronx man whose detention on Rikers Island became a symbol of the breakdown in ...

Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen ...